Morbid Fascination of Death

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Morbid Fascination of Death
Carpathian Forest studio album

Publication
(s)

2001

admission

January 2001

Label (s) Avantgarde Music , Irond, No Colors Records

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Black metal

Title (number)

10

running time

46:12

occupation
  • J. Nordavind: guitar, synthesizer, vocals with Speechless
  • Nina Hex: female vocals in Doomed to Walk the Earth as Slaves of the Living Dead
  • E. Kulde: background vocals with Knokkelmann and Carpathian Forest
  • C. Alucard: Speech at Morbid Fascination of Death

production

Carpathian Forest, Terje Refsnes

Studio (s)

Sound Suite, Havana

chronology
Strange Old Brew
(2000) 		Morbid Fascination of Death We're Going to Hell for This: Over a Decade of Perversions
(2002)

Morbid Fascination of Death is the third studio album by the Norwegian black metal band Carpathian Forest . It was released on September 21, 2001 via Avantgarde Music and Irond on CD and as a license press via No Colors Records as an LP limited to 1000 copies.

Track list

  1. Fever, Flames and Hell - 2:31
  2. Doomed to Walk the Earth as Slaves of the Living Dead - 3:12
  3. Morbid Fascination of Death - 2:28
  4. Through Self-Mutilation - 2:58
  5. Knokkelmann - 3:42
  6. Warlord of Misantrophy - 2:43
  7. A World of Bones - 4:43
  8. Carpathian Forest - 2:06
  9. Cold Comfort - 5:08
  10. Speechless - 3:27
  11. Ghoul ( Mayhem - cover ) - 3:40
  12. Nostalgia (demo recording) - 3: 9: 34

layout

The cover shows singer R. Nattefrost with two machetes crossed in a shape reminiscent of the Petrus cross against a background of human skulls . On the back there are pictures of the five members of the band.

Music genre

According to Thomas from The Metal Observer, Morbid Fascination of Death has “the same morbid spirit” as the previous album Strange Old Brew , but is based more on a slow, calm and almost doom- heavy atmosphere and is more experimental than its predecessor. The album occasionally features keyboards , female vocals and a tenor saxophone .

Reviews

Morbid Fascination of Death was sometimes referred to as a collection of B-sides from Strange Old Brew , Matthias Noll from Chronicles of Chaos saw therein the worse parts of the recordings of the predecessor; Only Knokkelmann and the Mayhem cover Ghoul are worth mentioning, most of the album is boring and Morbid Fascination of Death is a superfluous release. Michel Renaud of The Metal Crypt mentions the immediately striking, numerous similarities between the two albums, but the band does not serve "the same soup in a different bowl". The saxophone is an atypical instrument for metal albums, but its use is well, effectively and successfully integrated into the album. The only flaw is that the album sounds a bit too much like Strange Old Brew . Roberto Martinelli from Maelstrom called the album typical for Carpathian Forest, but it was a "step down" compared to the previous one. Nevertheless, it is a quality publication.

Thomas from The Metal Observer pointed out the album's experimental tendencies, but fans shouldn't worry that Carpathian Forest's music is still "very dark, unhealthy and hateful". Neil, also from The Metal Observer , said that while he loves the odd ways of Burzum , Emperor or Gorgoroth , occasionally Carpathian Forest's relatively simple Black / Thrash Metal mix is ​​the perfect antidote to their idiosyncrasies and their sadomasochism and self-hatred lyrics "A welcome change from all the 'Heil-Satan' folly". After the "senseless little intro", the album increasingly satisfies every Darkthrone lover. Kyle Ward of Sputnikmusic stated that the band only discovered through Morbid Fascination of Death and that until then they had always treated Black Metal with a certain seriousness, with lines like “You are nothing, you will never succeed. Give up, it's the easiest way. Take the blade, cut your wrist. You will not be missed, you were merely there. ”He had to laugh, however. These are unnecessary, as are the pictures of the armed musicians and a woman wrapped in barbed wire holding a knife to her wrist. With all this together with the upturned crosses and constant references to Satan , it is difficult to believe that the members are “so exhausted”. To his surprise, however, the music is by no means bad. Ward praised individual elements such as the guitar work in the middle of the piece Through Self-Mutilation , the collaboration of text and instruments in Knokkelmann and the passage with the faster riff and the drums that became louder than the guitar, the piece Cold Comfort and the concluding Speechless . Overall, the album is good and its potential shows itself after listening to it several times. Asmondeus from metal.de also sees the design of the album as "exaggerated, almost parodic"; here “all black metal virtues are united, even if they seem so overloaded that it is very difficult to really take them seriously”. The band rarely "goes into absolute frenzy, but then skillfully and accentuated". You could "not quite build on the good old days of the genre", but could "at least set an example in the present day of mediocre releases [...] and publish a black metal album [...], which this [sic !] May still wear the name with pride. Especially since this 'they mean it' aspect adds extra flavor to the matter. "

The rock-hard magazine put “Morbid Fascination of Death” on its list of “250 Black Metal Albums That One Should Know”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "This collectors item is limited to 1000 copies!" Carpathian Forest: Morbid Fascination of Death , No Colors Records 2001.
  2. ↑ a b c Thomas: CARPATHIAN FOREST - Morbid Fascination Of Death .
  3. ↑ a b Michel Renaud: Carpathian Forest - Morbid Fascination Of Death .
  4. ↑ a b Neil: CARPATHIAN FOREST - Morbid Fascination Of Death .
  5. ^ Matthias Noll: Carpathian Forest - Morbid Fascination of Death .
  6. ↑ Roberto Martinelli: CARPATHIAN FOREST - Morbid Fascination of Death ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maelstrom.nu
  7. ↑ Kyle Ward: Carpathian Forest - Morbid Fascination of Death .
  8. ↑ Asmondeus: Carpathian Forest - Morbid Fascination of Death .
  9. ↑ 250 Black Metal Albums That You Should Know . In: Rock Hard , No. 269, October 2009, p. 75.